Why did Voldemort want to kill Harry? + Trelawney

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Ms Lizard Gizzard <lizgiz1980 at y...> wrote:
> Starlight wrote:
> 
> > Why Harry? What could he possibly have against a 
> > little baby? Why was he prepaired to spare Lily's 
> > life, when she was more dangerous for him 
> > than Harry ever was till then? Shouldn't that tell
> > us something about the <<relationship>> between Lily
> 
> > and Voldermort? 
>  
> 
> I'm new here, so y'all back me up or shoot me down.
> 
> In the first book, I believe, Professor Quirrell was
> boasted that he would hand over to Voldemort "the last
> Potter."  


Welcome to the list, Lizgiz! I'm fairly new too, but so far I've 
really enjoyed this list and hope you do too. 

Now, I don't remember that part about "the last Potter," so I can't 
comment, but I do think this Lily question is an interesting one.  I 
have often dismissed the idea of a relationship between Lily and LV, 
but Voldemort does strike me as a take no prisoners kind of guy. 
Plus, now that I think about it, the way he talks to her in Harry's 
memories sounds a little different than I would expect.  There seems 
to be some familiarity there.  I don't have PoA with me, but I think 
he says something like "Stand aside girl.  Don't be a fool." He's 
definitely giving her a friendly out there and I don't know why he 
would do that, unless he honestly didn't want to kill her if he 
didn't have to. If he didn't care two wits about her, wouldn't he 
more likely say "You little fool, do you think a little witch like 
yourself can stand up to me? (cackle, cackle, cackle)"? 

Since Lily was Muggle-born, it does seem unlikely Voldemort has any 
blood relationship to her unless Tom Riddle had a brother or sister 
we don't know about who was not at all magical and so lived as a 
Muggle. (Aside:  Would a non-magical child with only half-wizard 
blood be called a squib? Anyone?) Another option is that Lily was his 
daughter and he gave her up or didn't know about her or she was taken 
from him and raised by Muggle parents . . . ooooh, killing his own 
daughter and grandchild.  That's very bad! That's also a little too 
Star Wars for me.

Still, it is a very interesting thought and I'll have to think more 
on it now. 
 
> Now... in book 3, Professor Trelawney goes into a
> trance and predicts the return of Voldemort. 
> Dumbledore muses that that is perhaps her *second*
> real prediction.  I have to wonder if (again, sorry if
> this is a repeat on this board.) her *first* real
> prediction was that a Potter would bring about LV's
> downfall.
> 
> Lizgiz

No arguments here. The first prediction, I believe, is the 
frontrunner among opinions as to how LV knows that Harry is a threat.


KK (who already thinks far too much and far too often about Harry, 
but will still think some more on this)